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Contributor's Note

Many hundreds of patients have passed through my care in nursing homes during 25 years of medical practice. Some of the names stand out in the long patient lists that I have kept. Faces and stories of their lives seem to swirl in and out of my consciousness as I get older, and I sometimes imagine them as snowflakes blowing in a storm. The metaphor of this poem is of a multitude of lives passing by like snowflakes in a storm and the story of one individual that stands out.